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66 | i. | Alice5 B. Robinson; born circa 1854; died 1918, Indiana; buried City Cemetery, Connersville, Fayette County, Indiana. Did not marry. |
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67 | ii. | Rachel Frances Robinson; born circa 1856; died after 1895; married 2 February 1881, J. T. Magness. |
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68 | iii. | Helena Jane "Lena" Robinson; born 8 May 1858, Daviess County, Kentucky; died 12 March 1925, Burbank, California; married William Newton Wilhite; born 27 October 1858, Oldham County, Kentucky; died 3 December 1935, Burbank, California. Lena and William N. Wilhite lived at Utica, Kentucky, Hebbardsville, Kentucky, and Connersville, Fayette County, Indiana, before moving to California. William N. Wilhite was a blacksmith, and, in Indiana, a funeral director. Lena and William Wilhite had four children: (a) Mamie Wilhite; (b) Loretta “Lora” Wilhite; (c) John William Wilhite; and (d) Hazel Wilhite. |
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69 | iv. | Mary B. Robinson; born 1868, Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky; died after 1895; married J. G. Burch. |
17. JOSEPH THOMAS4 ROBINSON (Boswell3, John2, Joseph1). He was born 23 April 1833,112 and died after 1881;113 married (first) 20 April 1854, MARTHA GRIGSBY;114 “at Boswell Robinson’s,” Daviess County, Kentucky; married (second) 21 June 1860, Grayson County, Texas, HARRIET GREER by Joseph Gaskill, Minister of the Gospel.115 I have no additional information on Joseph’s first marriage to Martha Grigsby. Joseph and Harriet had moved to Benton County, Arkansas, by 1880; they were enumerated there in Brightwater township in the federal census for that year. On 26 December 1881, they acknowledged the sale of Fayette County, Kentucky, land belonging to Joseph Barker, deceased. Joseph Robinson was an heir of Joseph Barker’s daughter Helena (Barker) Robinson.
While still in Grayson County, Texas, Joseph T. Robinson wrote a letter dated 10 May 1867, to his sister Mildred and her husband Lafayette Dabney. This letter was found by Beverly Robinson116 in a bible belonging to Jessie Marie Wells, a granddaughter of one of Joseph and Mildred’s brothers, Henry Robert Robinson, who lived in Missouri. Mildred and Lafayette Dabney were living in Pike County, Illinois by the 1870 federal census for that year. I do not know how the letter came into Henry Robert’s granddaughter’s possession.
In Joseph’s letter he mentioned that he had shoed horses for the Rebel Army as a regimental blacksmith during the Civil War. Citing the current Texas prices for various farm items, he described how hard it was to make a living in Texas at that time and asked to borrow enough money to “come home,” stating that he had a wagon but was not financially able to buy a team of horses to move. At the time Joseph wrote his letter he had been bitten by a snake and couldn’t walk, but the rest of the family were well, mentioning his wife, Harriett A. and his daughters, Oma, six years old, and Emmy Jane, three years old. Joseph doesn’t state what year, but says he went to Mexico and stayed 15 months. While in Mexico, he stated he had gone to Montana and the Atlantic Ocean and saw a large ship land.
Apparently soon after Joseph wrote this letter he found the means to move from Texas, because, in the 1888 Brightwater township, Benton County, Arkansas tax records, Joseph states he has paid his taxes in Brightwater township for the past 21 years.117 However, the 1880 census record for Benton County, Arkansas, suggests he was in Texas at least until about 1871 as daughter Sophrona, age 9, is listed as being born there. Joseph and Harriett Robinson are found in the 1880 federal census for Benton County, Arkansas. Joseph is listed as age 57, a stonemason. Harriett is listed as age 35, born in North Carolina; both parents born in North Carolina. Their children are listed as Oma, age 19, born in Texas; Emma J., age 15, born in Texas; Sophrona, age 9, born in Texas; Elijah D., age 6, born in Arkansas; and George A., age 1, born in Arkansas.
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| 70 | i. | Oma5 Robinson; born circa 1861. | |
| + | 71 | ii. | Emma Jane Robinson; born 7 September 1864; married William Henry McFarlin (McFarland). |
| 72 | iii. | Sophrona Robinson; born circa 1871 (federal census for 1880), but born 1868 according to others. | |
| + | 73 | iv. | Elijah "Lige" D. Robinson; born circa 1874 (federal census for 1880), but born 7 March 1871 according to others; married (first) Julie Howerton and (second) Birdie Brown. |
| + | 74 | v. | George Albert Robinson; born 11 March 1874, according to descendants, but born circa 1879 as listed in the federal census for 1880; married (first), Elizabeth “Lizzie” Carr; married (second) Ella Maud Rhodes. |
18. JAMES4 WILLIAM ROBINSON (Boswell3, John2, Joseph1).
He was born 11 January 1835 (or 4 January 1835),118
Owen County, Kentucky, and died of a cerebral hemorrhage, 26 October
1914, Stone County, Missouri. He is buried in the Rice Cemetery, in
Missouri,119 exact location unknown. James William married
28 December 1856 (bond date was 20 December 1856), Owensboro, Kentucky,
MARY JANE JOHNSON, born 1838, died August 1875, Hopkins County, Texas.120
James William Robinson enlisted 12 August 1862, at Owensboro, Kentucky, as a Private in Company F, 12th Cavalry Regiment (Union), and was mustered in on 17 November 1862. He was promoted to Corporal on 15 June 1863, but because of consolidation of ranks was made a Private on 25 March 1864. He was again promoted to Corporal on 1 November 1864, and mustered out 23 August 1865, at Louisville, Kentucky.121 I have not searched for information on what battles, if any, were fought by the 12th Cavalry.
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| 75 | i. | William5 B. Robinson; born circa 1858; married Emma [—?—]. | |
| 76 | ii. | Alice B. Robinson; born circa 1866; married [—?—] Morgan. | |
| 77 | iii. | Delia F. Robinson; born 1868; married [—?—] Capehart. | |
| 78 | iv. | Elizabeth Robinson; born before 1870; probably died before 1880. | |
| 79 | v. | John A. Robinson; born circa 1871 | |
| + | 80 | vi. | Lewis Napoleon Robinson; born 26 March 1872. |
| 81 | vii. | Sarah Ollie Robinson; born 11 August 1875; Sulphur Springs, Hopkins, County, Texas; died 27 June 1946; married 11 February 1890, Andrew Jackson Stumphill. 123 | |
19. MILDRED4 ANN ROBINSON (Boswell3, John2, Joseph1). She was born 20 August 1836,124 Owen County, Kentucky, and died after January 1920,125 probably Pike County, Illinois. Mildred was married 9 March 1854, by Samuel Calhoun “at Boswell Robinson’s,” Daviess County, Kentucky, to LAFAYETTE DABNEY, son of John Quarles Dabney and his second wife, Sarah Belle Hartman.126 Lafayette Dabney’s marriage record states he was 28 years of age, born in Estil County (Kentucky) and Mildred was 17 years of age, born Owen County (Kentucky).127
Mildred and Lafayette Dabney moved to Pike County, Illinois. Mildred, age 33, and Lafayette, age 45, a farmer with real estate valued at $4,500, are found there in the 1870 federal census, Hadley township, Barry Post Office, with children Mary, age 16, born in Kentucky; Joseph, age 13, born in Illinois; Calvin, age 10, born in Illinois; and Sarah Dabney, age 69, born in Kentucky. On 10 November 1874, from Pike County, Illinois, they acknowledged the sale of Joseph Barker’s land in Fayette County, Kentucky, Mildred being an heir of Joseph Barker’s daughter Helena (Barker) Robinson. The 1880 census shows the Dabney family with another daughter, Florence, age 8; but without daughter Mary, who had probably married; son Joseph, now age 23, a school teacher; and son Calvin, age 20, a laborer.
Lafayette Dabney probably died in the early 1880s since Mildred married (second) 14 September 1886, William H. Love.128 By the 1910 federal census for Barry City, Barry township, Pike County, Illinois, Mildred A. Love, age 74 and a widow, was living with her son C. B. Dabney (Calvin), age 50, single, a Minister. Mildred R. Love, at age 83 (as of 1 January, the effective census date), was still living with her son Calvin in the 1920 census. The 1910 census states Mildred was the mother of four children, all living.
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| 82 | i. | Mary5 Dabney; born circa 1854. | |
| + | 83 | ii. | Joseph Dabney; born circa 1857 or 1858. |
| 84 | iii. | Calvin B. Dabney; born circa 1860. Probably did not marry. | |
| 85 | iv. | Florence Dabney; born circa 1872.129 | |
Letter passed down in family through Birdie (Ware) Horrell (1874 - 1954). Possibly letter was in possession of Sarah Hannah (Robinson) Ware until her death in 1929 at the home of her daughter Birdie Horrell.
january 15 dear husband i write you a few lines to let you no how we are[.] we are all as well as you left us all but jane she is worse i dont think she will live more than a day or too[.] i wold not be surprised if she died in too hours[.] i hope you all are well
[signed] B Robinson [or possibly R Robinson]
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| Contents |
| Dedication |
| Preface |
| Acknowledgments |
| Maps |
| Photographs |
| Generation One |
| Generation Two |
| Generation Three |
| Generation Four |
| Generation Five |
| Virginia Origins |
| Documents |
| Census Information |
| End Notes |